issue on -passive feature

[zy9ard3]

Hey @projectdiscovery team,

There seems to be an issue with the -passive flag, which doesn't seem to be working as expected. When we use the -passive flag with Katana, the crawler is supposed to perform standard crawling along with additional passive endpoints. However, what is happening now is that the crawler only looks for passive endpoints and exits if no passive endpoints are found

Katana version : latest

Current Behavior :

When we use the -passive flag with Katana, the crawler only looks for passive endpoints and exits if none are found, without performing standard crawling on the given domain

Expected Behavior :

The crawler should always perform standard crawling regardless of the flag. If the -passive flag is given, the crawler should include additionally fetched endpoints from passive sources and perform crawling on those along with the standard crawling

Steps To Reproduce :

Take any random live host that does not have any passive URLs data in archives and execute the following two commands. You will notice the issue :

• katana -u https://xyz.com -passive

• katana -u https://xyz.com

Reference from my Side :

Kindly please rectify this issue for more efficient crawling

Have a Great Day : )

Thanks & Regards,
@zy9ard3

[ehsandeep]

@zy9ard3 this is intended bheavior, passive + active crawling not meant to used togather, otherwise katana will spend hours to just resolve / filter thousand of dead urls from passive source.

katana -passive -headless -u example.com

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[FTL] could not create runner: [:RUNTIME] could not validate options <- [:RUNTIME] headless mode (-headless) and passive mode (-passive) cannot be used together